Job 29 Cross References - MSTC

¹ So Job proceeded and went forth in his communication, saying, ² "Oh that I were as I was in the months by past, and in the days when God preserved me; ³ When his light shined upon my head; when I went after the same light and shining, even through the darkness. ⁴ As it stood with me, when I was young, when God prospered my house; ⁵ When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children stood about me; ⁶ When my ways ran over with butter, and when the stony rocks gave me rivers of oil; ⁷ When I went through the city unto the gate, and when they set me a chair in the street; ⁸ When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me; ⁹ when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth; ¹⁰ when the mighty kept still their voice, and when their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouths; ¹¹ When all they that heard me, called me happy, and when all they that saw me, wished me good. ¹² "For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help. ¹³ He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown. ¹⁵ I was an eye unto the blind, and a foot to the lame; ¹⁶ I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth. ¹⁸ "Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea. ¹⁹ For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn. ²⁰ My honor increased more and more, and my bow was ever the stronger in my hand. ²¹ Unto me men gave ear, me they regarded, and with silence they tarried for my counsel. ²² If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them. ²³ They waited for me, as the earth doth for the rain; and gaped upon me, as the ground doth to receive the latter shower. ²⁴ When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest; and this testimony of my countenance pleased them nothing at all. ²⁵ When I agreed unto their way, I was the chief, and sat as a king among his servants; and when they were in heaviness, I was their comforter.

⁷ And he began his parable, and said, "Balak the king of Moab hath fetched me from Mesopotamia out of the mountains of the east saying, 'Come and curse me Jacob, come and defy me Israel.'

¹² Your remembrance shall be like unto the dust, and your pride shall be turned to clay.

¹ And Job proceeded and went forth in his communication, saying,

¹ In the land of Uz, there was a man called Job: an innocent and virtuous man, such a one as feared God, and eschewed evil. ² This man had seven sons, and three daughters. ³ His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a very great household: so that he was one of the most principal men among all them of the east country. ⁴ And his sons went and made banquets - one day in one house, another day in another - and sent for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. ⁵ And it fortuned that when they had passed over the time of their banqueting round about; Job sent for them, and sanctified them, and gat up early, and offered for every one a burnt offering. For Job thought thus: "Peradventure my sons have done some offense, and have been unthankful to God in their hearts." And thus did Job everyday.

¹⁰ Hast thou not preserved him, his house, and all his substance on every side? Hast thou not blessed the work of his hands? Is not his possession increased in the land?

³ Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.

²⁸ For the LORD loveth the thing that is right; he forsaketh not his saints, but they are preserved forever. The unrighteous shall be punished; as for the seed of the ungodly, it shall be rooted out.

²⁸ Yea it shall come thereto, that like as I have gone about in times past to root them out, to scatter them, to break them down, to destroy them and chasten them: Even so will I also go diligently about, to build them up again, and to plant them, sayeth the LORD.

¹ Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, the brother of James. To them which are called and sanctified in God the father, and preserved in Christ Jesus.

¹⁷ Then should the residue of thy life be as clear as the noon day, and spring forth as the morning.

⁶ The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.

¹⁷ "How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? How oft cometh their destruction upon them? Oh what sorrow shall God give them for their part in his wrath!

²⁸ Then, look what thou takest in hand: he shall make it to prosper with thee, and the light shall shine in thy ways.

⁶ There be many that say, "Who will show us any good? LORD lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us."

²⁸ Thou also shalt light my candle; the LORD my God shall make my darkness to be light. {TYNDALE: Thou art my light, O LORD, and the LORD shall light my darkness.}

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff comfort me.

¹ {A Psalm of David} The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom then should I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom then shall I be afraid?

¹¹ For the LORD God is a light and defense; the LORD will give grace and worship, and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life.

⁹ The light of the righteous maketh joyful; but the candle of the ungodly shall be put out.

²⁰ Whoso curseth his father and mother, his light shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

²⁰ And why? The wicked hath nothing to hope for, and the candle of the ungodly shall be put out.

⁴ And he shall be judge among the heathen and tell many nations their faults. And they shall turn their swords into mattocks and their spears into scythes. One nation shall not lift up a sword against another, neither shall they teach to war any more.

¹² Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness: but shall have the light of life."

⁴⁶ I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness:

⁸ Ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

¹⁴ Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from death, and Christ shall give thee light."

⁸ Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God, that all wisdom is too little for thee?

¹⁴ The secret of the LORD is among them that fear him, and he showeth them his covenant.

⁵ For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle; yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me, and set me up upon a rock of stone.

¹ Whoso dwelleth under the defense of the most high, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

³² for the LORD abhorreth the froward, but his secret is among the righteous.

³ For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

²⁷ that is the dwelling place of God from the beginning, and from under the arms of the world. He hath cast out thine enemies before thee and said, 'Destroy.' ²⁸ And Israel shall dwell in safety alone. And the eyes of Jacob shall look upon a land of corn and wine. Moreover, his heaven shall drop with dew. ²⁹ Happy art thou Israel: who is like unto thee? A people that art saved by the LORD; thy shield, and helper, and sword of thy glory. And thine enemies shall hide themselves from thee, and thou shalt walk upon their high hills."

⁹ Behold, I have said unto thee, be strong and bold: neither fear, nor dread. For the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."

¹² And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said, "The LORD is with thee, thou man of might." ¹³ And Gideon answered him, "Oh my Lord; if the LORD be with us, why is all this come upon us? Yea, and where be his miracles which our fathers told us of and said, 'The LORD brought us out of Egypt'? But now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites."

³ O that I might see him and find him: O that I might come before his seat,

⁸ "For though I go before, I find him not; If I come behind, I can get no knowledge of him; ⁹ If I go on the left side to ponder his works, I can not attain unto them. Again, if I go on the rightside, he hideth himself, that I cannot see him. ¹⁰ But as for my way, he knoweth it: and tryeth me as the gold in the fire.

¹³ He had children also, seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ The first he called Day; the second Poverty; the third All-plenteousness. ¹⁵ In all the land were none found so fair, as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. ¹⁶ After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.

⁷ But as soon as thou didst turn thy face from me, I was troubled.

² For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou put me from thee? And why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?

⁸ We make our boast of God all day long, and will praise thy Name forever. Selah. ⁹ But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies.

³ Lo, children, and the fruit of the womb are a heritage and gift, that cometh of the LORD. ⁴ Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, even so are the young children. ⁵ Happy is the man, that hath his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

³ Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches round about thy table.

⁶ Children's children are a crown of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

⁴ He brought me into his wine cellar: and his behavior to me ward was lovely.

¹ By night in my bed I sought him, whom my soul loveth: yea, diligently sought I him, but I found him not. ² I will get up, thought I, and go about the city, in the ways and in all the streets will I seek him whom my soul loveth: but when I sought him, I found him not.

⁸ For thou art the comfort and help of Israel in the time of trouble. Why wilt thou be as a stranger in the Land, and as one that goeth over the field, and cometh in only to remain for a night?

¹⁵ And Jesus said unto them, "Can the wedding children mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The time will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

¹¹ He shall bind his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the vine branch, and shall wash his garment in wine and his mantle in the blood of grapes:

¹³ He set him up upon a high land, and he ate the increase of the fields. And he gave him honey to suck out of the rock, and oil out of the hard stone. ¹⁴ With butter of the kine and milk of the sheep, with fat of the lambs, and fat rams and he-goats, with fat kidneys and with wheat. And of the blood of grapes, thou drunkest wine.

²⁴ And of Asher he said, "Asher shall be blessed with children: he shall be acceptable unto his brethren and shall dip his foot in oil.

¹⁷ so that he shall no more see the rivers, and brooks of honey and butter.

¹⁶ He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-flour; and with honey out of the stony rock should I have satisfied thee."

¹⁸ Judges and officers thou shalt make thee in all thy cities, which the LORD thy God giveth thee throughout thy tribes: And let them judge the people righteously.

¹⁹ Then let his father and his mother take him and bring him out unto the elders of that city and unto the gate of that same place,

¹ Then went Boaz unto the gate and sat him down there. And behold, the kinsman of which Boaz spake came by. Unto whom he said, "Come and sit down here, and called him by his name." And he turned in and sat down. ² Then he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, "Sit ye down here." And they sat down.

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said "We are witnesses: the LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and Lea, which twain did build the house of Israel: that she may do virtuously in Ephrata, and be famous in Bethlehem,

²¹ Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?

¹⁶ Now the things that ye shall do, are these: Speak every man the truth unto his neighbour, execute judgment truly, and peaceably within your ports,

³² Thou shalt rise up before the hoar head and reverence the face of the old man; and dread thy God, for I am the LORD.

³¹ Age is a crown of worship, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

⁸ A king that sitteth in judgment, and looketh well about him, driveth away all evil.

³ For rulers are not to be feared for good works but for evil. Wilt thou be without fear of the power? Do well then: and so shalt thou be praised of the same. ⁴ For he is the minister of God, for thy wealth. But and if thou do evil, then fear: for he beareth not a sword for nought; but is the minister of God, to take vengeance on them that do evil.

⁷ Give to every man therefore his duty: Tribute to whom tribute belongeth: Custom to whom custom is due: fear to whom fear belongeth: Honour to whom honour pertaineth.

¹ Warn them, that they submit themselves to rule and power, to obey the officers, that they be ready unto all good works,

¹⁷ See that ye honour all men. Love brotherly fellowship, fear God, and honour the King.

⁵ Likewise, ye younger submit yourselves unto the elder. Submit yourselves every man, one to another. Knit yourselves together in lowliness of mind. For God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.

¹⁹ And they answered him, "Hold thy peace, and put thine hand upon thy mouth, and come with us, and be unto us a father and a priest. Whether is it better for thee to be a priest? Unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto a tribe or a kindred in Israel?"

² "If we begin to commune with thee, peradventure thou wilt be discontent; but who can withhold himself from speaking?

¹¹ Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speak in the trouble of my spirit; in that bitterness of my mind will I talk.

⁵ Mark me well, and be abashed, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

⁴ "Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth.

¹⁹ Where much babbling is, there must needs be offense; he that refraineth his lips is wisest of all.

³² If thou be so foolish to magnify thyself, or meddlest with any such thing, then lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

¹⁹ Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

⁶ If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth.

²⁶ And I will make thy tongue cleave so to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and not be as a chider with them: for it is an obstinate household.

²⁰ whose sides thanked me not, because he was warmed with the wool of my sheep?

² Where the righteous have the over hand, the people are in prosperity; but where the ungodly beareth rule, there the people mourn.

²² And all they bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words, which proceeded out of his mouth, and said, "Is not this Joseph's son?"

²⁷ And it fortuned, as he thus spake those things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, "Happy is the womb that bare thee and the paps, which gave thee suck.

²² Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child: ²³ If ye shall trouble them, they shall cry unto me, and I will surely hear their cry; ²⁴ and then will my wrath wax hot and I will kill you with sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

¹⁸ but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

² For there were some that said, "Our sons and daughters and we are too many, let us take corn for them to eat, that we may live." ³ Some said, "Let us set our lands, vineyards, and houses, to pledge, and take up corn in the dearth." ⁴ But some said, "Let us borrow money of the king's tribute for our lands and vineyards. ⁵ Now are our brethrens' bodies as our own bodies and their children as our children: else should we subdue our sons and daughters into bondage, and some of our daughters are subdued already, and no strength is there in our hands, and other men shall have our lands and vineyards." ⁶ But when I heard their complaint and such words, it displeased me sore, ⁷ and I advised so in my mind, that I rebuked the councilors and the rulers, and said unto them, "Will ye require usury one of another?" And I brought a great congregation against them, ⁸ and said unto them, "We, after our ability, have bought our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the Heathen. And will ye sell your brethren, whom we have bought unto us?" Then held they their peace, and could find nothing to answer. ⁹ Also I said, "It is not good, that ye do. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of God because of the rebuke of the Heathen our enemies? ¹⁰ I and my brethren, and my servants have lent them money and corn: but as for usury, let us leave it. ¹¹ Therefore this same day see that ye restore them their lands again, their vineyards, oil gardens, and houses, and the hundredth part of the money of the corn, wine, and oil, that ye have won of them." ¹² Then said they, "We will restore them again and will require nothing of them and will do as thou hast spoken." And I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do so. ¹³ And I shook my lap, and said, "God shake out every man after the same manner from his house and labour, that maintaineth not this word: even thus be he shaken out, and void." And all the congregation said, "Amen," and praised the LORD. And the people did so.

⁵ Is not thy wickedness great, and thine ungracious deeds innumerable? ⁶ Thou hast taken the pledge from thy brethren for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing; ⁷ To such as were weary, hast thou given no water to drink, and thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry. ⁸ Should such one then as useth violence, wrong and oppression, doing all things of partiality, and having respect of persons, dwell in the land? ⁹ Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless.

⁴ that thrust the poor out of the way, and oppress the simple of the world together.

¹⁷ Have I eaten my portion alone, that the fatherless hath had no part with me?

⁵ He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

¹² For he shall deliver the poor when he crieth, and the needy that hath no help.

² How long will ye give wrong judgment, and accept the persons of the ungodly? Selah. ³ Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right. ⁴ Deliver the outcast and poor, and save them from the hand of the ungodly.

¹³ Whoso stoppeth his ear at the crying of the poor; he shall cry himself and not be heard.

¹¹ Deliver them that go unto death, and are led away to be slain, and be not negligent therein. ¹² If thou wilt say, "I knew not of it"; Thinkest thou that he which made the hearts, doth not consider it? And that he which regardeth thy soul, seeth it not? Shall not he recompense every man according to his works?

¹⁶ Yea when he helped the oppressed and poor to their right, then prospered he well. From whence came this? But only because he had me before his eyes, sayeth the LORD.

²⁷ Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

¹¹ And rejoice before the LORD thy God: both thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there.

¹³ but deliver him the pledge again by that the sun go down, and let him sleep in his own raiment and bless thee. And it shall be righteousness unto thee, before the LORD thy God.

⁵ And thou shalt answer and say before the LORD thy God, 'The Syrians would have destroyed my father, and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few folk and grew there unto a nation great, mighty and full of people.

¹⁰ Therefore said he unto them, "Go your way, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send part unto them also that have not prepared themselves: for this day is holy unto our LORD. Be not ye sorry therefore: for the joy of the LORD is your strength." ¹¹ And the Levites stilled all the people, and said, "Hold your peace, for the day is holy: vex not ye yourselves." ¹² And all the people went their way to eat and to drink, and to send part unto others, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

⁹ Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless.

¹⁹ Have I seen any man perish through nakedness and want of clothing? Or any poor man for lack of raiment, ²⁰ whose sides thanked me not, because he was warmed with the wool of my sheep?

⁴ O let the nations rejoice and be glad; for thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth.

⁶ Give strong drink unto such as are condemned to death, and wine unto those that mourn: ⁷ that they may drink it, and forget their misery and adversity. ⁸ Be thou an advocate and stand in judgment thyself, to speak for all such as be dumb and sucourless. ⁹ With thy mouth defend the thing that is lawful and right, and the cause of the poor and helpless.

¹³ Then shall the great trumpet be blown, so that those which have been destroyed in the Assyrian's land, and those that be scattered abroad in Egypt, shall come and worship the LORD at Jerusalem, upon the holy mount.

¹⁴ Behold, my servants shall rejoice for very quietness of heart: But ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and complain for vexation of mind.

³⁹ Peter arose and came with them: And when he was come, they brought him into the chamber, and all the widows stood round about him weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them. ⁴⁰ And Peter put them all forth and kneeled down and prayed and turned him to the body, and said, "Tabitha, arise." And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up. ⁴¹ And he gave her the hand and lift her up, and called the saints and widows and showed her alive.

¹² For the office of this ministration, not only supplieth the need of the saints: but also is abundant herein, that for this laudable ministering, thanks might be given to God of many, ¹³ which praise God for the obedience of your professing the gospel of Christ, and for your singleness, in distributing to them, and to all men. ¹⁴ And in their prayers to God for you, long after you, for the abundant grace of God given unto you.

¹⁶ The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: ¹⁷ but when he was at Rome he sought me out very diligently, and found me. ¹⁸ The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy with the Lord at that day. And in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus thou knowest very well.

⁷ And we have great joy and consolation over thy love: For by thee, brother, the saints' hearts are comforted.

⁶ My righteous dealing will I keep fast, and not forsake it; for my conscience reproveth me not in all my conversation.

⁹ Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let thy saints rejoice.

⁵ In that day shall the LORD of Hosts be a joyful crown, and a glorious garland unto the remnant of his people.

¹⁷ He put righteousness upon him for a breastplate, and set the helmet of health upon his head. He put on wrath instead of clothing, and took jealousy about him for a cloak:

¹⁰ And therefore I am joyful in the LORD, and my soul rejoiceth in my God. For he shall put upon me the garment of salvation, and cover me with the mantle of righteousness. He shall deck me like a bridegroom, and as a bride that hath her apparel upon her.

³ Thou shalt be a crown in the hand of the LORD, and a glorious garland in the hand of thy God.

¹⁴ but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. And make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.

⁷ in the words of truth, in the power of God, by the armour of righteousness of the right hand and on the left hand,

¹⁴ Stand, therefore, and your loins gird about with verity, having on the breastplate of righteousness,

⁸ But let us which are of the day be sober, armed with the breast plate of faith and love, and with hope of salvation as a helmet.

⁸ And to her was granted, that she should be arrayed with pure and goodly raynes" — For the raynes is the righteousness of saints.

³¹ And Moses said, "Oh nay, leave us not, for thou knowest where is best for us to pitch in the wilderness: and thou shalt be our eyes.

⁵ The blind see, the halt go, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are risen again, and the glad tidings is preached to the poor.

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of one body though they be many, yet are but one body: even so is Christ. ¹³ For in one spirit are we all baptised to make one body, whether we be Jews or gentiles: whether we be bond or free, and have all drunk of one spirit. ¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot say, "I am not the hand, therefore I am not of the body," is he therefore not of the body? ¹⁶ And if the ear say, "I am not the eye, therefore I am not of the body," is he therefore not of the body? ¹⁷ If all the body were an eye: where were then the ear? If all were hearing: where were the smelling? ¹⁸ But now hath God disposed the members, every one of them in the body, at his own pleasure. ¹⁹ If they were all one member: where were the body? ²⁰ Now are there many members, yet but one body. ²¹ And the eye cannot say unto the hand, "I have no need of thee," nor the head also to the feet, "I have no need of you." ²² Yea, rather a great deal those members of the body which seem to be most feeble, are most necessary. ²³ And upon those members of that body which we think least honest, put we most honesty on. And our ungoodly parts have most beauty on. ²⁴ For our honest members need it not: but God hath so disposed the body, and hath given most honour to that part which lacked, ²⁵ lest there should be any strife in the body: but that the members should indifferently care for one another. ²⁶ And if one member suffer, all suffer with him: if one member be had in honour, all members be glad also. ²⁷ Ye are the body of Christ, and members one of another. ²⁸ And God hath also ordained in the congregation, first the apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, then them that do miracles; after that, the gifts of healing, helpers, governors, diversity of tongues. ²⁹ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all doers of miracles? ³⁰ Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? ³¹ Covet after the best gifts. And yet show I unto you a more excellent way.

²⁶ And they judged the people at all seasons, and brought the hard causes unto Moses: and judged all small matters themselves.

¹⁴ Then seek and make search and enquire diligently. If it be true, and the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought among you:

⁸ If a matter be too hard for thee in judgment between blood and blood, plea and plea, stroke and stroke in matters of strife within thy cities: Then arise and get thee up unto the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen, ⁹ and go unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and ask, and they shall show thee how to judge. ¹⁰ And see that thou do according to that which they of that place which the LORD hath chosen show thee, and see that thou observe to do according to all that they inform thee.

¹⁶ Then came there two women that were harlots unto the king and stood before him. ¹⁷ And the one of them said, "Oh my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. And I was delivered of a child with her in the said house. ¹⁸ And the third day after that I was delivered, she was delivered also: we two being together and no stranger with us in the house save we two alone. ¹⁹ And this woman's child died in a night, for she had overlaid it. ²⁰ And then she arose at midnight and took my son from my side, while thine handmaid slept and laid it in her bosom, and put her dead child in my bosom. ²¹ And when I rose up in the morning to give my child suck: see, it was dead. But when I had looked more diligently upon it in the morning: Behold, it was not my son which I did bear." ²² And the other woman said, "It is not so: But the living is my son, and the dead thine." And she said again, "Thou sayest untrue, for the dead is thy son, and the living mine." And thus they pleaded before the king. ²³ Then said the king, "The one sayeth, 'This that is alive is my son, and the dead is thine.' And the other sayeth, 'Nay: But thy son is the dead and the live child is mine.'" ²⁴ Then said the king, "Bring me a sword." And they brought a sword before the king. ²⁵ And then the king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give the one half to the one, and the other to the other." ²⁶ Then spake the woman whose son lived, unto the king — for her motherly heart was kindled with pity over her son — and said, "I beseech thee, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it." And the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor thine, but divide it." ²⁷ Then the king answered and said, "Give her the living child and slay it not, for she is the mother thereof." ²⁸ And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged and feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

⁷ and he nourished Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and she was a fair and beautiful damsel. And when her father and mother died, Mordecai received her as his own daughter.

¹⁸ For mercy grew up with me from my youth, and compassion from my mother's womb.

² It is the honour of God to keep a thing secret; but the king's honour is to search out a thing.

⁷ The righteous considereth the cause of the poor, but the ungodly regardeth no understanding.

¹ Be ye followers of God as dear children,

³⁵ And I went out after him and smote him, and took it out of his mouth. And when he arose against me, I caught him by the beard and smote him and slew him.

⁷ Arise, LORD, and help me, O my God: for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

⁸ Let them consume away like a snail, and like the untimely fruit of a woman; and let them not see the sun.

³ they had swallowed us up alive, when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

⁶ But praised be the LORD, which hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.

¹⁴ This peoples' teeth are swords, and with their jawbones they consume and devour the simple of the earth, and the poor from among men.

¹² Thou saidest that thou wouldest surely do me good, and wouldest make my seed as the sand of the sea which can not be numbered for multitude."

⁴⁹ And Joseph laid up corn in store, like unto the sand of the sea in multitude out of measure, until he left numbering: For it was without number.

²⁶ Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season.

¹⁶ After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation. ¹⁷ And so he died, being old and of a perfect age.

⁶ And in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be removed." And why? Thou, LORD, of thy goodness, hast made my hill so strong. ⁷ But as soon as thou didst turn thy face from me, I was troubled.

¹⁶ With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.

²³ thou that dwellest upon Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the Cedar's trees. O how great shall thy mourning be, when thy sorrows come upon thee, as a woman travailing with child?

¹⁶ Thy high stomach and the pride of thy heart have deceived thee; Because thou wilt dwell in the holes of stony rocks, and have the high mountains in possession. Nevertheless, though thy nest were as high as the Eagles, yet will I cast thee down, sayeth the LORD.

⁴ But though thou wentest up as high as the Eagle, and madest thy nest above among the stars: yet would I pluck thee down from thence.

⁹ Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune.

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his harvest be cut down.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the waterside, that will bring forth his fruit in due season. His leaf, also, shall not wither; and, look, whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper.

⁸ For he shall be as a tree, that is planted by the waterside: which spreadeth out the root unto moistness, whom the heat cannot harm, when it cometh, but his leaves are green. And though there grow but little fruit because of drought yet is he not careful, but he never leaveth off to bring forth fruit.

⁵ I will be as dew to Israel, and he shall flourish as a lily, and stretch out his roots as Lebanon. ⁶ His branches shall run out, and as an olive tree shall his glory be, and his savour as Lebanon. ⁷ They that shall turn and sit in his shadow, shall live with corn, and flourish as vines. His renown shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

¹³ Therefore, tell my father of all my honour which I have in Egypt and of all that ye have seen, and make haste and bring in father hither."

²⁴ and yet his bow bode fast, and his arms and his hands were strong, by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob: out of him shall come a herdsman, a stone in Israel.

⁹ He hath spoiled me of mine honour, and taken the crown away from my head.

¹⁴ And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown.

³ But thou, O LORD, art my defender; thou art my worship, and the lifter up of my head.

³⁴ He teacheth my hands to fight, and mine arms shall bend even a bow of steel. {TYNDALE: And teacheth my hands to fight, that a bow of brass is too weak for mine arms.}

⁵ Who satisfieth thy desire with good things, making thee young and lusty as an Eagle?

³¹ But unto them that have the LORD before their eyes, shall strength be increased, Eagles wings shall grow upon them; When they run, they shall not fall; and when they go, they shall not be weary."

¹⁶ Wherefore, we are not wearied: but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

⁹ when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth; ¹⁰ when the mighty kept still their voice, and when their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouths;

¹¹ For when I had waited till ye made an end of your talking, and heard your wisdom, what arguments you made in your communication; ¹² Yea, when I had diligently pondered what ye said, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Job, or that directly could make answer unto his words,

² My doctrine drop, as doth the rain; and my speech flow, as doth the dew — as the mizzling upon the herbs, and as the drops upon the grass.

¹⁵ For they where so abashed that they could not make answer, nor speak one word. ¹⁶ "But insomuch as ye will not speak, standing still like dumb men, and making no answer:

³¹ Mark well, O Job, and hear me: hold thee still until I have spoken. ³² But if thou hast anything to say, then answer me, and speak, for thy answer pleaseth me. ³³ If thou hast nothing, then hear me, and hold thy tongue, so shall I teach thee wisdom."

¹¹ Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb; yea, milk and honey is under thy tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of frankincense.

¹⁵ Even so shall the multitude of the Gentiles look unto him, and the kings shall shut their mouths before him. For they that have not been told of him, shall see him, and they that heard nothing of him, shall behold him.

⁴⁶ "Thou son of man, set thy face toward the south, and speak to the south wind,

¹⁶ And therefore, bear thou now the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, 'Prophesy not against Israel, and speak nothing against the house of Isaac.'

⁶ "Tush, hold your tongue," say they. "It shall not fall on this people, we shall not come so to confusion,"

⁴⁶ And none of them could answer him again one word. Neither durst any from that day forth, ask him any more questions.

⁶ He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wool, even as the drops that water the earth.

³ Then shall we have understanding, and endeavor ourselves to know the LORD. He shall go forth as the spring of the day, and come unto us as the evening and morning rain upon the earth."

¹ Pray the LORD then betimes to give you the latter rain, so shall the LORD make clouds, and give you rain enough for all the increase of the field:

²⁶ "Joseph is yet alive and is governor over all the land of Egypt." And Jacob's heart wavered, for he believed them not.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people, O LORD, that can rejoice in thee; they shall walk in the light of thy countenance.

¹ {A song of the stairs} When the LORD turneth again the captivity of Zion, then were we like unto them that dream.

⁴¹ And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, "Have ye here any meat?"

¹⁴ When Abram heard that his brother was taken, he harnessed his servants born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and followed till they came at Dan. ¹⁵ And set himself and his servants in array, and fell upon them by night, and smote them, and chased them away unto Hobah, which lieth on the lefthand of Damascus, ¹⁶ and brought again all the goods and also his brother Lot, and his goods; the women also and the people. ¹⁷ And as he returned again from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings that were with him, then came the king of Sodom to meet him, unto the vale of Shaveh which now is called King's Dale.

⁴⁰ Thou therefore shalt be over my house, and according to thy word shall all my people obey: only in the king's seat will I be above thee."

⁵ And he was in the fullness of the king, and held the rulers of the people together, with the tribes of Israel.

⁸ And the elders of Gilead answered Jephthah, "Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabiters of Gilead."

² And thereto in time past when Saul was king over us, thou leddest Israel in and out. And the LORD hath said to thee, 'Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.'"

¹ And David counseled with the Captains of thousands and of hundreds, and with all the lords, ² and said unto all the congregation of Israel, "If it seem you good — and also to be of the LORD our God — Let us take and send unto the remnant of our brethren throughout all the land of Israel, and to the priests and Levites with them, in their cities and suburbs, and gather them together to us. ³ And let us bring again the Ark of the Lord to us: for we regarded it not in the days of Saul." ⁴ And all the congregation was content so to do, for the thing seemed good in the eyes of all the people.

³ His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a very great household: so that he was one of the most principal men among all them of the east country.

³ Behold, thou hast been a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weary hands. ⁴ Thy words have set up those that were fallen, thou hast refreshed the weak knees.

³⁷ I have told the number of my goings, and delivered them unto him as to a prince.

³ And therefore strengthen the weak hands, and comfort the feeble knees. ⁴ Say unto them that are of a fearful heart, "Be of good cheer, and fear not. Behold, your God cometh, to take vengeance, and to reward, God cometh his own self, and will deliver you."

¹ The spirit of the LORD God is with me, for the LORD hath anointed me, and sent me to preach good tidings unto the poor: that I might bind up the wounded hearts, that I might preach deliverance to the captive, and open the prison to them that are bound; ² That I might declare the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of the vengeance of our God; that I might comfort all them that are in heaviness. ³ That I might give unto them that mourn in Zion, beauty in the stead of ashes, joyful ointment for sighing, pleasant raiment for a heavy mind; That they might be called excellent in righteousness, a planting of the LORD for him to rejoice in.

³ Blessed be God the father of our Lord Jesus the Christ, father of mercy, and the God of all comfort, ⁴ which comforteth us in all our tribulation, insomuch that we are able to comfort them which are troubled, in whatsoever tribulation it be, with the same comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

⁵ For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side: Outward was fighting, inward was fear. ⁶ Nevertheless God, that comforteth the abject, comforted us at the coming of Titus. ⁷ And not with his coming only: but also with the consolation wherewith he was comforted of you. For he told us your desire, your mourning, your fervent mind to me ward: So that I now rejoice the more.

² and sent Timothy our brother and minister of God, and our labour fellow in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you over your faith, ³ that no man should be moved in these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are even appointed thereunto.